Small to large tree with a spreading canopy, can be a strangler. Monoecious.
Weed Category:
Weed:
No
Form or habit:
Small tree, Med tree, Large Tree
Family:
Moraceae
Leaf:
Simple Alternate Simple, alternate, entire, ovate, elliptic or occasionally obovate, 4-19 x 1-13cm. Petiole 0.7-8cm long with stipules 2-7cm or more. Thick texture; green and sometimes hairy above but rusty hairy below (from where its common name is derived).
Flower conspicuous:
Inconspicuous
Flower colour:
Flower description:
Flowers are enclosed within the fig itself and generally pollinated by specific wasps.
Fruit conspicuous:
Conspicuous
Fruit colour:
Purple, Orange, Yellow, Red
Fruit:
Fleshy
Fruit description:
Figs are 0.7-2cm in diameter warty or dotted. Yellow or orange turning red and sometimes purple when ripe; any month.
Habitat:
Beach scrub, gallery (riverine or riparian) forest, littoral rainforest, open forest, woodland.
Distribution
Qld and NSW.
Food source for:
Fruit eaten by a large range of birds. Larval food plant of the Common Crow and Moonbeam Butterflies and native Fig Moth.
Toxicity:
No toxicity known
Origin:
Australia
Notes:
Information sources:
Melzer R. & Plumb J. (2007) Plants of Capricornia.
